Faraday cages ( was Re: staticy plastic tubs )

[Fred Cisin]

> Someone wrote....
> > I just had a long running argument with a clown that insisted that
> > interpreted BASIC on a PCjr was as fast as compiled BASIC because the
> > original BASIC compiler wasn't up to snuff in his opinion.

A simple "Sieve of Erastothanes" benchmark ran faster in 5150 interpreted
BASIC than it did with Microsoft's original PC FORTRAN compiler.